44 Quotes About Keck

Just as you are about to start construction the 1.3 billion dollar world’s largest telescope, a crazy person from the previous telescope project shows up with hundreds of pages of scientific reasons why the toxic project needs to be shut down by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Smart people do not use bulldozers to demolish things, they use science.

From the point that I returned to work from essential surgery to the point of being terminated, it was clear that the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory had declared war on me.

I am the only person that I know of that has met Poli’ahu, the snow goddess, atop Mauna Kea.

Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom lift and spray immense clouds of cold carbon dioxide snow and gas onto the ten meter diameter mirrors high above the floor indoors. It would cause some of the accumulated dirt to magically fall off, leaving it less dirty.

At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.

During my time at the W. M. Keck Observatory, I had formed the opinion that overworking workers was part of the company's toxic culture.

Since 1996 the W. M. Keck Observatory has been observing what happens to workers that spend their time in and around two massive Faraday cages.

I enjoyed working with Keck Laser Engineer Robert Lafon during my night shifts. If I saw him today, I would ask him this question: Do you have any health conditions that you associate with working with 20 watt high powered LASER's and very high altitude work?